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Book SynopsisLeading cultural historian and broadcaster Christopher Frayling reflects on gothic themes in literature, art and popular culture, through the lens of his friendship and correspondence with Angela Carter during her formative ‘Bath years’, during which she wrote most of her key works; The Bloody Chamber, The Sadeian Woman, The Passion of New Eve. Inside the Bloody Chamber collects Frayling’s articles, essays and lectures written since then on various aspects of the Gothic—several in hard-to-find places, many never published before, but all revised for this new book. The subjects match Angela’s interests, are mirrored in the stories within The Bloody Chamber—and mesh with his memories of their time together in Bath in the 1970s.
Trade ReviewChristopher Frayling is an archivist, a detective, an expert and aficionado and his memoir of Angela Carter in the 1970s gives an unexpected and altogether fascinating sighting of the writer - before anyone could know how epoch-defining her wit and brilliance would be. He then follows twists and turns in some of their shared interests - cartoons, film music, puppets, beasts (especially wolves), vampires, horror and the Gothic - and displays throughout irrepressable energy and detailed knowledge.' -- Maria Warner
